Community issues

A report dated Dec. 4, 2025, details dire conditions at the since-evacuated Maryland Reception, Diagnostic and Classification Center in downtown Baltimore.

Although there is some debate about the validity of the Maduro image, it hasn’t changed the fact that it has thrust Maryland’s fashion community into the international spotlight.

The current water system is owned by Baltimore City, although it also serves several counties in the region.

Members of the Baltimore Board of Estimates voted to resolve a civil rights lawsuit that Gary Washington filed in 2019.

Baltimore County officials are investigating a Parkville fire in an end-of-group townhome that left a 4-year-old child dead and one adult critically injured.

About 10,000 Maryland federal workers lost their jobs in October alone, according to data released Wednesday by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Later this year, a gigantic yellow inflatable duck will be visible from the Chesapeake Bay Bridge.

A man was arrested for allegedly setting seven separate fires in Baltimore’s Little Italy neighborhood, according to police.

Don’t let the uninviting strip malls of Eastern Baltimore County deter you. They offer cuisine every bit as flavorful as the city’s.

Check out an Irish dance class, winter brunch, a secondhand book market and more cozy and fun ways to stay indoors in Baltimore County.

Downtown Takoma Park is already equipped with an assortment of traffic-calming measures, including flashing stop signs, school zone speed limits and crossing guards. Now, it’s also embracing artificial intelligence-powered stop sign cameras.

Maryland officials are urging all residents to get a flu shot as cases and hospitalizations have risen sharply nationwide.

Neighbors in the 400 block of Kosoak Road in Middle River rushed to save a mother and her two children from their burning two-story townhome.

A 76-year-old woman died in a Parkville home fire Sunday night, the first fire fatality in Baltimore County this year.

A Pennsylvania fire chief was arrested on New Year’s Day for allegedly defrauding volunteer fire departments in Baltimore County out of tens of thousands of dollars, police said.

A Baltimore man who police say was driving the wrong way on Interstate 95 when he struck another vehicle head-on, killing two people, has been arrested and charged in the Sunday-morning crash, according to Maryland State Police.

Matt Mervis, a Potomac native and Georgetown Prep graduate, signed a minor league deal with the Washington Nationals.

Four Maryland thrift stores will see layoffs, according to notices filed with the state, as the chain Prime Thrift comes under new ownership.

Tochterman’s Fishing Tackle, hallowed ground among local anglers, will soon celebrate its 110th birthday.

Data, and conversations with those who work in the field, show that residents of Montgomery County are struggling mentally, and that demand for mental health services has increased.